Arlene Lazarowitz, Ph.D. Professor of History California State University, Long Beach 1250 Bellflower Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90840 562 985-4423 | Fax: 562 985-5431 Arlene.Lazarowitz@csulb.edu | Office: FO2-107

Research Interests

U.S. Foreign Relations
U.S. 20th-century political history
American Jewish history

Education

Ph.D. History, UCLA
B.A., M.A., History, California State University, Long Beach

Selected Publications

“A Southern Senator and Israel:  J. William Fulbright’s Accusations of Undue Jewish Influence over American Foreign Policy in the Middle East,” Journal of Southern Jewish History, Fall 2011.

“Ethnic Influences on American Foreign Policy:  American Jewry and President Jimmy Carter,” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Fall 2010.

“Search for Balance:  The Johnson Administration, the State Department, and the Middle East, 1964-1967,” Diplomatic History, XXXII (January 2008), 25-54

“Promoting Air Power:  The Influence of the United States Air Force on the Creation of the National Security State during the Truman Administration,” Independent Review:  A Journal of Political Economy, IX (Spring 2005), 477-99

“Senator Jacob K. Javits and Soviet Jewish Emigration,” Shofar:  An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, XXI (Summer 2003), 1-13